Windows XP won't boot after drive transplant

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Published on 2010-12-23T03:45:19Z Indexed on 2010/12/23 3:55 UTC
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Hi all,

I moved my hard drive from my Lenovo laptop into my Asus Eee PC netbook. When I started the netbook, after POST all I got was a black screen with a cursor in the upper left corner.

I thought that the migration should work OK because this was a 32-bit version of Windows XP, and the Atom processor in the Asus should support the x86 instruction set. However, I don't know much about Windows, so maybe this was a dumb thought.

I did verify that the BIOS can find the drive.

It required major surgery to replace the drive, so any solution requiring me to remove the transplant drive is not going to fly.

Keeping in mind that the netbook has no optical drive and that I have no other Windows computers (all my other computers run Linux), is there any way I can fix this problem?

Thanks!

Nathan

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